Cumberland, MD September, 1987 - At the massive Cumberland Locomotive Facility, a C&O GP-38 sits in the repair bay at the end of its quarterly inspection. During the early CSX era, all 1,100 forme... (more)

By the 1980s, Chessie had pulled all of C&O’s U25Bs out of service and stored them in Clifton Forge, Virginia. Here, parked beside the Clifton Forge Locomotive Shops, a string of nearly thirty re... (more)

Nestled deep in the Trough of the South Branch of the Potomac River, home to highest population of Bald Eagles in the State of West Virginia, Potomac Eagle operated, F7(A) No. 8016 idles in the na... (more)

A C&O freight works eastbound at the 1944 Blue Ridge Tunnel. This line is now operated by the Buckingham Branch Railroad.

The Newport News section of the GEORGE WASHINGTON slows for a stop at Lee Hall.

While the "Presidential Express" will now never turn a wheel, it will live as a dream of what could be at Clifton Forge....but would look even better back in its C&O lettering.

With the photographer's International Harvester Travelall in the foreground, a pair of C&O GPs works at Hinton, WV in this spring 1972 scene.

C&O F7A 7034 at Western Maryland yard, Hagerstown, Md., August 14, 1965.

C&O F7A 7051 and B&O F7A 4607 at Western Maryland yard, Hagerstown, Md., June 6, 1965.

It was a more innocent time… when a summertime swim in the Coal River might mean jumping off the railroad bridge at Sproul, and that’s what the photographer found when he visited there on June 24t... (more)

C&O E8 units 4026 and 4016 sit together with the Washington and Newport News sections of the GEORGE WASHINGTON which were combined here for the trip west.

Chesapeake & Ohio built its Huntington Locomotive Shops in 1872, and a century later, in May of 1975, the lineup of motive power getting class repairs there is a “picture” of second generation die... (more)

Rolling through the Peach Creek Yard near Logan, West Virginia, C&O GP38 4822 breaks a rail and hits the ballast. It’s June 27th, 1976, and the coalfields are being worked by mostly four-axle pow... (more)

GP38 4824 and GP7 5732 ride the turntable at the C&O St. Thomas, Ontario roundhouse.

12:04 pm, April 6, 1984: C&O Agent/Operator Clarence "Yogi" Shaw copies a train order at the company's Blenheim, Ontario station on its Northern Region/Canadian Division.